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Tuesday Views: 15 September 2026

2–3 minutes

LOCAL: I spent every evening trying to get my kid through the homework, handling dinner, unpacking and moving things around. Pouring sweat, chugging water. I am still passing kidney stones. In the past, I would paint for hours every weekend, hit the trail with the bikes, go off somewhere with fam for a lark. Go thrifting, go to the mountains. Disappear. I would take my kid to play tennis or shoot hoops, whatever he wanted. Now it’s homework and labor upon the residence. He tells me he hates me and he wants to run away. I feel ruined. He went to a school dance last weekend. He is brave.

I hung out of attic windows to sand and paint old peeling window frames. I painted an exterior door frame that had lost virtually all its paint. I painted a wooden railing here and there. I tacked up asbestos tile in the attic that was ripped down. My big 2′ x 3′ canvas is ready, but I am not. I just need a place to paint, a couple of hours to make progress. I am having issues with water in the basement and the garage, so those places are not ideal, but they’ll do. I sort of want to paint in the garage, which is unfinished, but I need to get the bikes up off the floor. Rolls of insulation are fallen from rafters and piled in a corner. There is evidence of a fire. I have put a bunch of it back up. I can make room to put in a table – I like a table to hold paints and supplies. I am a week or two away at most, from having an uninterrupted paint session. If my kid comes home with no homework, I am going to set up something. I would paint on the patio, but I am surrounded by houses, and I don’t feel like painting the neighborhood scene just yet. I have other work.

Science: They are building a data center in Isabelle, PA, in Luzerne township, in Fayette County. Bills go up. Animals leave. Remember that data is infinite and mostly useless, and billionaires have no plans to employ the displaced. My son starts a new job in a week.

I should have known. Just 3 minutes with miniature horses and donkeys improves mood of teens

Drone: I flew down by the river at a spot I flew nine years ago. I was between errands. Castaway.

Art: I am going to sell and outright give away paintings at a community event in a couple of weeks. I hope to meet other artists and get involved in a community project. I have nowhere to put these hundred paintings up. I need to maybe pivot to another medium in this transition.

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